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Healing Lessons
Dr. Sidney J. Winawer was one of the world's leading cancer experts. Yet when his wife Andrea was stricken with stomach cancer, not even his skills and dedication as a physician could reverse the grim prognosis. Together the couple explored complementary and alternative treatments. Healing Lessons is a testament to the strength of love and the story of a doctor's transformation--the new treatments he embraced and the lessons he learned on the opposite side of the doctor-patient relationship.
285 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 1998
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June 6, 2025
The book accurately portrays what true love should be and what it looks like. It explores the confusing realities and undeniable certainties of what the future holds for you and emphasizes the importance of being prepared to let go when the time comes.
Rest In Peace, Andrea.
"I believe that Andrea achieved this inner peace. She was at peace with herself. She felt that her mission in life was to come on to this earth and to have three wonderful children and experience love with them and with me and to experience love herself and to give to the family. She felt she did this. She felt she accomplished her mission in life. In the end she said she would not trade her place with anyone. She was not envious of anyone. She was at peace. Yes, she wanted more time, but for herself, not to become anyone else.
In the end it was love that was the most important thing for her. She felt that and I felt that. Without love there is nothing. Love for another, love for the present, for the moment, love for ourselves and our mission. The experience of love is forever. We all want it to last forever. For Andrea and me, it was a feeling that came from a place of existence that is timeless. It is a feeling that will go on timelessly forever, no matter what physical and spiritual state we are in. We can only journey to other realms of existence from a place of knowing who we are and with love for each other. With love, we can never be separated."
Rest In Peace, Andrea.
"I believe that Andrea achieved this inner peace. She was at peace with herself. She felt that her mission in life was to come on to this earth and to have three wonderful children and experience love with them and with me and to experience love herself and to give to the family. She felt she did this. She felt she accomplished her mission in life. In the end she said she would not trade her place with anyone. She was not envious of anyone. She was at peace. Yes, she wanted more time, but for herself, not to become anyone else.
In the end it was love that was the most important thing for her. She felt that and I felt that. Without love there is nothing. Love for another, love for the present, for the moment, love for ourselves and our mission. The experience of love is forever. We all want it to last forever. For Andrea and me, it was a feeling that came from a place of existence that is timeless. It is a feeling that will go on timelessly forever, no matter what physical and spiritual state we are in. We can only journey to other realms of existence from a place of knowing who we are and with love for each other. With love, we can never be separated."
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November 13, 2021Read in 1999; my review from then: A doctor's wife gets cancer, and he gets to see the other side of his usual doctor's perspective. He learns a lot. Very readable.
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